Slashdot beat the Amiga team in OGR-24, but the Amiga team is leading the Slashdot team in OGR-25: OGR-25 Team Listing
But the Dutch Power Cows leads in both efforts.
OGR-24 blocks have been scarce for the last few months, so the statistics have been rather erratic.
At least the OGR effort is more useful than the RC5-72 effort. We showed how quick DES and RC5-56 could be broken quickly with a bruce force attack with spare CPU cycles. But why do RC5-72? It's not that interesting.
I'm doing OGR-25 now, and when that's finished I might go on to something like folding @ home, if there's a client.
In 2000, they called Florida for Gore prematurely, while the polls in Florida were still open. (They switched to Bush during the night.) Wolf Blitzer, Larry King etc. were talking about that mess just now on CNN, and how that was an embarassing mistake. This year, they waited untill all the polls in the state closed, before calling the state. And now they will be more careful, looking more closely at the actual vote numbers and having three possible outcomes: Bush, Kerry or Too close to call.
I see the mods have been watching F911 along with the rest of the world.
Oh, hello? Yes, I'd like to report a case of voter intimidation. Yes. Uhuh. This person on "Slashdot", the most respected news source on the internet. That's right./sarcasm What you're saying is what Trey Parker and Matt Stone said about the Vote or Die! initiative.
Vietnam / national guard stuff here please. Remember to change the subject line to what your post is about. Mods: Please keep this post below Score: 2
Ah, the 527 non-tax-excempt public advocacy groups, 60 minutes, war veterans, drinking, Paris, flight physicals and BURNiNATING the countryside of Vietnam.
Exactly. And there weren't exactly hundreds of people complaining about votes for Kerry going to Bush?
Some pople may be saying that this is part of the pre-emptive strike the Democrats promised (alleging fraud where none exists). More likely, it's a misalligned touchscreen issue. Were those who complained shorter or taller than the people who calibrated the screens? Did they have eye-hand coordination problems?
But they all were able to correct the checkmarks and vote for those that they intended to vote for. That's much of the point with touch-screen votes. You either have instant confirmation that you voted for your preferred candidate, or you didn't cast a ballot at all. Good stuff.
Well that's something we do in write-in statistical surveys and polls, because when people tend to go for the first or the middle option if they're not sure what to answer. As the other posters wrote, the candidate order is set by a legally regulated process.
"Design a better idiot-proof piece of software, and the genetic pool will design a better idiot." -- John "Kate" Looney.
This is one of the few applications where you have to spend as much effort as you can on good design. Regular computers and ATM machines not working are mostly a concern for the manufacturer. Military and medical systems are only used by trained individuals. However, voting systems are one of the few systems that everybody are supposed to be able to use, by law.
1. Market crappy software as if it was good. 2. Profit 3. Price fix, break law, pay both political parties. 4. Profit 5. Use money to buy competition and hire better developers. 6. Kill competing products. Make own software less crappy. 7. Issue new version less crappy, but more bloated than the last one. 8. Profit. 9. Goto 3
The result of this is software that's less crappy. Windows 3.1 , 95, 98, Me were pretty bad. XP, except Explorer, is actually pretty good, in my experience. Would it be this good without competition from Unix vendors, the open source community and Macintosh? I don't think so.
She wasn't just wishing for him to die. It was more like she was saying "I don't like X and wish somebody would kill him. For sex." OK, not the "For sex." part. But you get the idea.
And by the way, I corrected my only spelling mistake in the journal before you posted. I can't go back and edit posts.
I do appreciate that somebody are still looking out for the English language. There are just too many people who don't know their "there" from their "their" and "they're", or their "of" from their "'ve".
I'll reward you with an offer to look in my journal. Did you see the "419" post?
Some parts of the slashcode are pretty easy to understand. For example, I patched it so that Underrated and Overrated would get caught in moderation. (But that's a feature that they want to keep. Despite new users filing it as a bug every three months.)
I tend to agree with you and think WMD=NBC weapons. But you're both flying off on a tangent here, since the resolutions were not only against WMD, but also the development capabilities, and the delivery systems. All of these where proscribed by resolutions. The missiles were banned as delivery systems for WMDs, not banned because of their conventional explosive yield.
I could maybe grant you that a fuel-air bomb destructs massively, but calling regular tank mines WMDs is super-silly.
Getting nostalgic for your old Amiga? The "Back to the Roots" software archive offers free legal downloads of many games, demos, pictures, etc. Amiga Forever is a polished emulator solution with licensed operating system for sale by Cloanto Software, in a download version or a CD version that even can be booted from Knoppix-style.
There is a reason why this is in the developers section: It's ready for people to develop on, but not for general consumer release. But think about how quick the Amiga OS and GUI was running on 7,14 and 50 MHz Motorola 680x0 processors, and extrapolate that to a 800MHz G4. Of course there's more colours and new stuff, but they've kept the efficiency.
Speaking of which, I should get the newest upgrade to OS 4.0 this week. Been busy. PPC native graphics!
I wouldn't agree to a ban to paper bags (...) Give the security guard one of these
For those with little reading comprehension: I meant give the guard a universal off-switch (he could have a paper bag too, but whatever). My scenario is moot anyway, since TVs should be shut off with the main AC switch to really save power.
Remember the lame excuse that TV companies/Hollywood put out whenever they make something offensive? I never thought I would reguritate it and actually mean it: You don't have to watch! I know that the effect of a TV screen may seem hypnothic to you, but other people are actually able to ignore it. And you could ask the staff to turn it off.
If I happen to sit in a waiting room at the DMV, you know where I have no alternative but to go to get my driver's license, and take particular offence at your misproportioned face, am I then allowed to put a big brown paper bag over your head? By your standard, I am. (Not touching your nose.)
On the flipside, I wouldn't agree to a ban to paper bags, since they have a legitimate use besides hiding your CRT-tanned face. There could be a use for them for an airport that wants to save electrcity and have several different makes of TV. Give the security guard one of these and let him shut down those advertising-emmitting heaters on his first night round.
what gives them the right to overrule the vast majority of people there, other than some stupid social standard that TV is GOD? Right of ownership, common law, US code, perhaps the FCC, any sane ethical standard.
In his speech tomorrow John Kerry will tell you his plan for America, next month at the Republican National Convention George W. Bush will do the same. Listen to those speeches. Then, turn the TV off and... make up your own mind. Don't listen to this guy, or that guy, or her... (pictures of political commentators from different channels appear on screen)him, or...(picture of Stewart's Daily Show staff shows up) they don't even count..or that guy, kind of a dooche, or him.. You get the point. Think for yourself!
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Slashdot beat the Amiga team in OGR-24, but the Amiga team is leading the Slashdot team in OGR-25: OGR-25 Team Listing
But the Dutch Power Cows leads in both efforts.
OGR-24 blocks have been scarce for the last few months, so the statistics have been rather erratic.
At least the OGR effort is more useful than the RC5-72 effort. We showed how quick DES and RC5-56 could be broken quickly with a bruce force attack with spare CPU cycles. But why do RC5-72? It's not that interesting.
I'm doing OGR-25 now, and when that's finished I might go on to something like folding @ home, if there's a client.
In 2000, they called Florida for Gore prematurely, while the polls in Florida were still open. (They switched to Bush during the night.)
Wolf Blitzer, Larry King etc. were talking about that mess just now on CNN, and how that was an embarassing mistake.
This year, they waited untill all the polls in the state closed, before calling the state. And now they will be more careful, looking more closely at the actual vote numbers and having three possible outcomes: Bush, Kerry or Too close to call.
I see the mods have been watching F911 along with the rest of the world.
Oh, hello? /sarcasm
Yes, I'd like to report a case of voter intimidation. Yes. Uhuh. This person on "Slashdot", the most respected news source on the internet. That's right.
What you're saying is what Trey Parker and Matt Stone said about the Vote or Die! initiative.
Vietnam / national guard stuff here please.
Remember to change the subject line to what your post is about.
Mods: Please keep this post below Score: 2
Ah, the 527 non-tax-excempt public advocacy groups, 60 minutes, war veterans, drinking, Paris, flight physicals and BURNiNATING the countryside of Vietnam.
Well, yeah I was disappointed that he wasn't walking around in it, and that the images were just resized.
But at least it worked.
Exactly. And there weren't exactly hundreds of people complaining about votes for Kerry going to Bush?
Some pople may be saying that this is part of the pre-emptive strike the Democrats promised (alleging fraud where none exists).
More likely, it's a misalligned touchscreen issue. Were those who complained shorter or taller than the people who calibrated the screens? Did they have eye-hand coordination problems?
But they all were able to correct the checkmarks and vote for those that they intended to vote for. That's much of the point with touch-screen votes. You either have instant confirmation that you voted for your preferred candidate, or you didn't cast a ballot at all. Good stuff.
Well that's something we do in write-in statistical surveys and polls, because when people tend to go for the first or the middle option if they're not sure what to answer.
As the other posters wrote, the candidate order is set by a legally regulated process.
"Design a better idiot-proof piece of software, and the genetic pool will design a better idiot."
-- John "Kate" Looney.
This is one of the few applications where you have to spend as much effort as you can on good design. Regular computers and ATM machines not working are mostly a concern for the manufacturer. Military and medical systems are only used by trained individuals. However, voting systems are one of the few systems that everybody are supposed to be able to use, by law.
The Microsoft way:
1. Market crappy software as if it was good.
2. Profit
3. Price fix, break law, pay both political parties.
4. Profit
5. Use money to buy competition and hire better developers.
6. Kill competing products. Make own software less crappy.
7. Issue new version less crappy, but more bloated than the last one.
8. Profit.
9. Goto 3
The result of this is software that's less crappy. Windows 3.1 , 95, 98, Me were pretty bad. XP, except Explorer, is actually pretty good, in my experience. Would it be this good without competition from Unix vendors, the open source community and Macintosh? I don't think so.
She wasn't just wishing for him to die. It was more like she was saying "I don't like X and wish somebody would kill him. For sex."
OK, not the "For sex." part. But you get the idea.
You see his sig. right? He's not serious. But the mods misunderstood and moderated it Insightful instead of Funny. :-D
And by the way, I corrected my only spelling mistake in the journal before you posted. I can't go back and edit posts.
I do appreciate that somebody are still looking out for the English language. There are just too many people who don't know their "there" from their "their" and "they're", or their "of" from their "'ve".
I'll reward you with an offer to look in my journal. Did you see the "419" post?
True that...
but I'm posting with Internet Explorer. I don't have ISpell here.
Many good points.
Realistically, if your primary concern is the security of the US, then the best policy is isolationism, not global intervention.
That was what you thought before 9/11.
Plus, it wouldn't exactly be the best policy for us Europeans, whenever we need the US.
Another day, another death treath
Oh, the stifling of dissent!
Some parts of the slashcode are pretty easy to understand. For example, I patched it so that Underrated and Overrated would get caught in moderation. (But that's a feature that they want to keep. Despite new users filing it as a bug every three months.)
Yes, I still do that. Nice to see that other people also do/did it.
Aslo, I give freaks more negative points than I do foes.
I tend to do that too. It makes slashdot biased though. Biased toward my side, but still...
I tend to agree with you and think WMD=NBC weapons.
But you're both flying off on a tangent here, since the resolutions were not only against WMD, but also the development capabilities, and the delivery systems. All of these where proscribed by resolutions. The missiles were banned as delivery systems for WMDs, not banned because of their conventional explosive yield.
I could maybe grant you that a fuel-air bomb destructs massively, but calling regular tank mines WMDs is super-silly.
OK, you've tried OSX. Now go buy it. Or should Apple be content with that you're "likely to buy new macs in the future"?
Getting nostalgic for your old Amiga?
The "Back to the Roots" software archive offers free legal downloads of many games, demos, pictures, etc.
Amiga Forever is a polished emulator solution with licensed operating system for sale by Cloanto Software, in a download version or a CD version that even can be booted from Knoppix-style.
There is a reason why this is in the developers section: It's ready for people to develop on, but not for general consumer release. But think about how quick the Amiga OS and GUI was running on 7,14 and 50 MHz Motorola 680x0 processors, and extrapolate that to a 800MHz G4. Of course there's more colours and new stuff, but they've kept the efficiency.
Speaking of which, I should get the newest upgrade to OS 4.0 this week. Been busy. PPC native graphics!
I wouldn't agree to a ban to paper bags (...) Give the security guard one of these
For those with little reading comprehension: I meant give the guard a universal off-switch (he could have a paper bag too, but whatever).
My scenario is moot anyway, since TVs should be shut off with the main AC switch to really save power.
Remember the lame excuse that TV companies/Hollywood put out whenever they make something offensive? I never thought I would reguritate it and actually mean it: You don't have to watch!
I know that the effect of a TV screen may seem hypnothic to you, but other people are actually able to ignore it.
And you could ask the staff to turn it off.
If I happen to sit in a waiting room at the DMV, you know where I have no alternative but to go to get my driver's license, and take particular offence at your misproportioned face, am I then allowed to put a big brown paper bag over your head? By your standard, I am. (Not touching your nose.)
On the flipside, I wouldn't agree to a ban to paper bags, since they have a legitimate use besides hiding your CRT-tanned face. There could be a use for them for an airport that wants to save electrcity and have several different makes of TV. Give the security guard one of these and let him shut down those advertising-emmitting heaters on his first night round.
what gives them the right to overrule the vast majority of people there, other than some stupid social standard that TV is GOD?
Right of ownership, common law, US code, perhaps the FCC, any sane ethical standard.
Duct tapes ready.
To paraphrase from memory:
... make up your own mind.
In his speech tomorrow John Kerry will tell you his plan for America, next month at the Republican National Convention George W. Bush will do the same. Listen to those speeches. Then, turn the TV off and
Don't listen to this guy, or that guy, or her... (pictures of political commentators from different channels appear on screen)him, or...(picture of Stewart's Daily Show staff shows up) they don't even count..or that guy, kind of a dooche, or him.. You get the point. Think for yourself!